I still talk to our old friend Halladay’s Bicep[t]s on Twitter sometimes. He sends me Phillies links. Then he begs me to un-ban him. Then we have these kinds of conversations following a report from Enrique Rojas of ESPN Deportes:

@craigcalcaterra Here is the the cultural disparity that I talk about. David Oriz talks about his pain to a non-english source: ESPNdeportes

Not gonna lie. I miss the SOB sometimes. If I had a talk show on NBC Sports Network he’d be Larry “Bud” Melman to my Letterman. But, unfortunately, this is also why he’s gonna stay banned. Because there’s no way those tweets don’t become part of the comments section and all hell breaks loose.

Racist remarks, personal insults, the usual stuff that gets you banned. Craig was nice after ‘cepts asked for a second go around, lasted a few days and then he asked Craig to ban himself permanently because he would just go down his usual path.

I worried about the guy sometimes. Seemed to have no filter on what he would say and then no insight as to why he had just offended someone. In return he would get insulted at the inevitable reply, an voila, ” all Hell is breaking loose.”

Don’t let guilt influence your decision. Even though he is still a presence in your life, it is not your job to save him. He still has his life. We have things like yahoo! and much of the rest of the internet for knee-jerk reaction/drunk/stoned/childish/thoughtless/irrational/me first/provocative comments. I read HBT to get away from that stuff. Hasn’t Randy already taken his place?